The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature by Isla, Ana

The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the...
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The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature by Isla, Ana

The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

$139.13

The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature

$139.13
Author: Ana Isla
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of green industries from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The Greening of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejection of physical limits to growth, the biologist's fetish with such limits, and the indebtedness of peripheral countries.

Isla's case study is the 250,000 hectare Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area, created in the late 1990s as the result of Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature swaps. Rather than reducing poverty and creating equality, development in and around the conservation area has dispossessed and disenfranchised subsistence farmers, expropriating their land, water, knowledge, and labour.

Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.



Author: Ana Isla
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 01/23/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781442626713


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2015

About the Author
Isla, Ana: - Ana Isla is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at Brock University.

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